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Patti Smith
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Patti Smith performing at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1978

Background information

Birth name
Patricia Lee Smith
Born
December 30, 1946 (age 68)
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Origin
New York City
Genres
Rock, protopunk, punk rock, art punk, blues rock
Occupation(s)
Singer-songwriter, poet, artist
Instruments
Vocals, guitar, clarinet
Years active
1971–present
Labels
Arista, Columbia
Associated acts
Tom Verlaine
Website
www.pattismith.net
Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith (born December 30, 1946)[1] is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses.[2]
Called the "punk poet laureate", Smith fused rock and poetry in her work. Smith's most widely known song is "Because the Night", which was co-written with Bruce Springsteen and reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978.[2] In 2005, Patti Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture,[3] and in 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[4] On November 17, 2010, she won the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids.[5] She is also a recipient of the 2011 Polar Music Prize.


Contents  [hide]
1 Life and career 1.1 1946–1967: Early life
1.2 1967–1973: New York
1.3 1974–1979: Patti Smith Group
1.4 1980–1995: Marriage
1.5 1996–2003: Re-emergence
1.6 2004–present
2 Influence
3 Activism
4 Band members
5 Discography
6 Bibliography
7 References
8 Further reading
9 External links

Life and career[edit]
1946–1967: Early life[edit]
Patricia Lee Smith was born in Chicago.[1] Her mother, Beverly, was a waitress, and her father, Grant, worked at the Honeywell plant. The family was of Irish heritage.[citation needed] She spent her early childhood in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia,[6] before her family moved to Woodbury Gardens, Deptford Township, New Jersey.[7][8] Her mother was a Jehovah's Witness. Patti had a strong religious upbringing and a Bible education, but left organized religion as a teenager because she felt it was too confining; much later, she wrote the line "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine" in her cover version of Them's "Gloria" in response to this experience.[9] She has described having an avid interest in Tibetan Buddhism around the age of eleven or twelve, saying "I fell in love with Tibet because their essential mission was to keep a continual stream of prayer," but that as an adult she sees clear parallels between different forms of religion, and has come to the conclusion that religious dogmas are "...man-made laws that you can either decide to abide by or not."[10] At this early age Smith was exposed to her first records, including Shrimp Boats by Harry Belafonte, Patience and Prudence doing The Money Tree, and Another Side of Bob Dylan, which her mother gave to her. Smith graduated from Deptford Township High School in 1964 and went to work in a factory.[2][11] She gave birth to her first child, a daughter, on April 26, 1967, and chose to place her for adoption.[11]
1967–1973: New York[edit]
In 1967, she left Glassboro State College (now Rowan University) and moved to New York City. She met photographer Robert Mapplethorpe there while working at a book store with a friend, poet Janet Hamill. She and Mapplethorpe had an intense romantic relationship, which was tumultuous as the pair struggled with times of poverty, and Mapplethorpe with his own sexuality. Smith considers Mapplethorpe to be one of the most important people in her life, and in her book Just Kids refers to him as "the artist of my life". Mapplethorpe's photographs of her became the covers for the Patti Smith Group LPs, and they remained friends until Mapplethorpe's death in 1989.[12] In 1969 she went to Paris with her sister and started busking and doing performance art.[7] When Smith returned to New York City, she lived in the Hotel Chelsea with Mapplethorpe; they frequented Max's Kansas City and CBGB. Smith provided the spoken word soundtrack for Sandy Daley's art film Robert Having His Nipple Pierced, starring Mapplethorpe. The same year Smith appeared with Wayne County in Jackie Curtis's play Femme Fatale. As a member of the St. Mark's Poetry Project, she spent the early 1970s painting, writing, and performing. In 1971 she performed – for one night only – in Cowboy Mouth,[13] a play that she co-wrote with Sam Shepard. (The published play's notes call for "a man who looks like a coyote and a woman who looks like a crow".) She wrote several poems, "for sam shepard"[14] and "Sam Shepard: 9 Random Years (7 + 2)"[15] about her relationship with Shepard.
Smith was briefly considered for the lead singer position in Blue Öyster Cult. She contributed lyrics to several of the band's songs, including "Debbie Denise" (inspired by her poem "In Remembrance of Debbie Denise"), "Baby Ice Dog", "Career of Evil", "Fire of Unknown Origin", "The Revenge of Vera Gemini" (on which she performs duet vocals), and "Shooting Shark". She was romantically involved at the time with the band's keyboardist, Allen Lanier. During these years, Smith also wrote rock journalism, some of which was published in Rolling Stone and Creem.[16]
1974–1979: Patti Smith Group[edit]



 Tivolis Koncertsal, Copenhagen, October 6, 1976
By 1974, Patti Smith was performing rock music herself, initially with guitarist, bassist and rock archivist Lenny Kaye, and later with a full band comprising Kaye, Ivan Kral on guitar and bass, Jay Dee Daugherty on drums and Richard Sohl on piano. Ivan Kral was a refugee from Czechoslovakia, he moved to the USA in 1966 with his parents who were diplomats. After the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, Kral decided not to return.[17] Financed by Sam Wagstaff, the band recorded a first single, "Hey Joe / Piss Factory", in 1974. The A-side was a version of the rock standard with the addition of a spoken word piece about fugitive heiress Patty Hearst ("Patty Hearst, you're standing there in front of the Symbionese Liberation Army flag with your legs spread, I was wondering were you gettin' it every night from a black revolutionary man and his women...").[18] The B-side describes the helpless anger Smith had felt while working on a factory assembly line and the salvation she discovered in the form of a shoplifted book, the 19th century French poet Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations.[2] In a 1996 interview which discusses artistic influences during her young years, Smith said, "I had devoted so much of my girlish daydreams to Rimbaud. Rimbaud was like my boyfriend."[10]



 Smith performing with the Patti Smith Group, in Germany, 1978



"Gloria"










"Because the Night"










"Dancing Barefoot"








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Later that same year, she performed spoken poetry on "I Wake Up Screaming" from Ray Manzarek's The Whole Thing Started with Rock & Roll Now It's Out of Control album.
The Patti Smith Group was signed by Clive Davis of Arista Records, and in 1975 recorded their first album, Horses, produced by John Cale amid some tension. The album fused punk rock and spoken poetry and begins with a cover of Van Morrison's "Gloria", and Smith's opening words: "Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine" (an excerpt from "Oath," one of her early poems). The austere cover photograph by Mapplethorpe has become one of rock's classic images.[19] As the popularity of punk rock grew, Patti Smith Group toured the United States and Europe. The rawer sound of the group's second album, Radio Ethiopia, reflected this. Considerably less accessible than Horses, Radio Ethiopia initially received poor reviews. However, several of its songs have stood the test of time, and Smith still performs them regularly in concert.[20] She has said that Radio Ethiopia was influenced by the band MC5.[10]
On January 23, 1977, while touring in support of Radio Ethiopia, Smith accidentally danced off a high stage in Tampa, Florida, and fell 15 feet into a concrete orchestra pit, breaking several neck vertebrae.[21] The injury required a period of rest and an intensive round of physical therapy, during which time she was able to reassess, re-energize and reorganize her life. Patti Smith Group produced two further albums before the end of the 1970s. Easter (1978) was her most commercially successful record, containing the single "Because the Night" co-written with Bruce Springsteen. Wave (1979) was less successful, although the songs "Frederick" and "Dancing Barefoot" both received commercial airplay.[22]
1980–1995: Marriage[edit]




"People Have the Power"








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 Smith with her daughter Jesse Smith at the 2011 Time 100 gala
Before the release of Wave, Smith, now separated from long-time partner Allen Lanier, met Fred "Sonic" Smith, former guitar player for Detroit rock band MC5 and his own Sonic's Rendezvous Band, who adored poetry as much as she did. (Wave's "Dancing Barefoot" and "Frederick" were both dedicated to him.)[23] The running joke at the time was that she married Fred only because she would not have to change her name.[24] They had a son, Jackson (b. 1982) who would go on to marry The White Stripes drummer, Meg White in 2009;[25] and a daughter, Jesse (b. 1987). Through most of the 1980s Patti Smith was in semi-retirement from music, living with her family north of Detroit in St. Clair Shores, Michigan. In June 1988, she released the album Dream of Life, which included the song "People Have the Power". Fred Smith died on November 4, 1994, of a heart attack. Shortly afterward, Patti faced the unexpected death of her brother Todd[7] and original keyboard player Richard Sohl. When her son Jackson turned 14, Smith decided to move back to New York. After the impact of these deaths, her friends Michael Stipe of R.E.M. and Allen Ginsberg (whom she had known since her early years in New York) urged her to go back out on the road. She toured briefly with Bob Dylan in December 1995 (chronicled in a book of photographs by Stipe).[13]
1996–2003: Re-emergence[edit]




"Summer Cannibals"








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In 1996, Smith worked with her long-time colleagues to record Gone Again, featuring "About a Boy", a tribute to Kurt Cobain. That same year she collaborated with Stipe on "E-Bow the Letter", a song on R.E.M.'s New Adventures in Hi-Fi, which she has also performed live with the band.[26] After release of Gone Again, Patti Smith recorded two new albums: Peace and Noise in 1997 (with the single "1959", about the invasion of Tibet) and Gung Ho in 2000 (with songs about Ho Chi Minh and Smith's late father). Songs "1959" and "Glitter in Their Eyes" were nominated for Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.[27] A box set of her work up to that time, The Patti Smith Masters, came out in 1996, and 2002 saw the release of Land (1975–2002), a two-CD compilation that includes a memorable cover of Prince's "When Doves Cry". Smith's solo art exhibition Strange Messenger was hosted at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh on September 28, 2002.[28]
2004–present[edit]




"Jubilee"








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On April 27, 2004, Patti Smith released Trampin' which included several songs about motherhood, partly in tribute to Smith's mother, who had died two years before. It was her first album on Columbia Records, soon to become a sister label to her previous home Arista Records. Smith curated the Meltdown festival in London on June 25, 2005, the penultimate event being the first live performance of Horses in its entirety.[29] Guitarist Tom Verlaine took Oliver Ray's place. This live performance was released later in the year as Horses/Horses.



 TIM festival, Marina da Glória,
Rio de Janeiro, October 28, 2006
On July 10, 2005, Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.[3] In addition to Smith's influence on rock music, the Minister also noted her appreciation of Arthur Rimbaud. In August 2005, Smith gave a literary lecture about the poems of Arthur Rimbaud and William Blake. On October 15, 2006, Patti Smith performed at the CBGB nightclub, with a 3½-hour tour de force to close out Manhattan's music venue. She took the stage at 9:30 p.m. (EDT) and closed for the night (and forever for the venue) at a few minutes after 1:00 a.m., performing her song "Elegie", and finally reading a list of punk rock musicians and advocates who had died in the previous years.[30]
On November 10, 2005, Smith received the Woman of Valor Award from ROCKRGRL Magazine at the ROCKRGRL Music Conference, marking the 30th Anniversary of the release of "Horses."
Smith was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 12, 2007.[4] She dedicated her award to the memory of her late husband, Fred, and gave a performance of The Rolling Stones staple "Gimme Shelter". As the closing number of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, Smith's "People Have the Power" was used for the big celebrity jam that always ends the program.[31]
 From November 2006 - January 2007, an exhibition called 'Sur les Traces'[32] at Trolley Gallery, London, featured polaroid prints taken by Patti Smith and donated to Trolley to raise awareness and funds for the publication of Double Blind, a book on the war in Lebanon in 2006, with photographs by Paolo Pellegrin, a member of Magnum Photos. She also participated in the DVD commentary for Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters. From March 28 to June 22, 2008, the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain in Paris hosted a major exhibition of the visual artwork of Patti Smith, Land 250, drawn from pieces created between 1967 and 2007.[33] At the 2008 Rowan Commencement ceremony, Smith received an honorary doctorate degree for her contributions to popular culture.



 Smith with National Book Critics Circle President Jane Ciabattari and NBCC board member John Reed. Smith's memoir Just Kids was an NBCC autobiography finalist at the 2010 awards.[34]
Smith is the subject of a 2008 documentary film, Patti Smith: Dream of Life.[35] A live album by Patti Smith and Kevin Shields, The Coral Sea was released in July 2008. On September 10, 2009, after a week of smaller events and exhibitions in the city, Smith played an open-air concert in Florence's Piazza Santa Croce, commemorating her performance in the same city 30 years earlier.[36] In the meantime, she contributed with a special introduction to Jessica Lange's book 50 Photographs (2009).[37] In 2010, Patti Smith's book, Just Kids, a memoir of her time in 1970s Manhattan and her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe, was published; it later won the National Book Award for Nonfiction.[5][38] On April 30, 2010, Patti Smith headlined a benefit concert headed by band-mate Tony Shanahan, for The Court Tavern of New Brunswick.[39] Smith's set included "Gloria", "Because the Night" and "People Have the Power." She has a brief cameo in Jean-Luc Godard's 2010 Film Socialisme, which was first screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.[40]
On May 17, 2010, Patti Smith received an honorary doctorate in fine arts from Pratt Institute, along with architect Daniel Libeskind, MoMA director Glenn Lowry, former NYC Landmarks Commissioner Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, novelist Jonathan Lethem, and director Steven Soderbergh.[41] Following the conferral of her degree, Smith delivered the commencement address[42] and sang/played two songs accompanied by long-time band member Lenny Kaye. In her remarks, Smith explained that in 1967 when she moved to New York City (Brooklyn), she would never have been accepted into Pratt, but most of her friends (including Mapplethorpe) were students at Pratt and she spent countless hours on the Pratt campus. She added that it was through her friends and their Pratt professors that she learned much of her own artistic skills, making the honour from the institute particularly poignant for Smith 43 years later.[43]
Smith is currently working on a crime novel set in London. "I've been working on a detective story that starts at the St Giles in the Fields church in London for the last two years," she told NME adding that she "loved detective stories" having been a fan of Sherlock Holmes and US crime author Mickey Spillane as a girl.[44] Part of the book will be set in Gothenburg, Sweden.[45]
On May 3, 2011, it was announced that Patti Smith is one of the winners of the Polar Music Prize: "By devoting her life to art in all its forms, Patti Smith has demonstrated how much rock’n'roll there is in poetry and how much poetry there is in rock’n'roll. Patti Smith is a Rimbaud with Marshall amps. She has transformed the way an entire generation looks, thinks and dreams. With her inimitable soul of an artist, Patti Smith proves over and over again that people have the power."
On June 19, 2011, Patti Smith made her television acting debut on the TV series Law & Order: Criminal Intent, appearing in an episode called "Icarus".[46]
Smith has recorded a cover of Buddy Holly's classic "Words of Love" for the CD Rave On Buddy Holly, a tribute album tied to Holly's seventy-fifth birthday year which was released June 28, 2011.[47]
Smith also contributed a track to "AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered", a U2 covers album released through Q Magazine on October 25, 2011. Smith recorded a cover of "Until The End Of The World" for the compilation.
More recently, Smith has devoted her time to what she terms 'pure photography' (a method of capturing still objects without using a flash), which she began to pursue following the death of her husband in 1994.[48] In 2011, Smith announced the first museum exhibition of her photography in the United States, Camera Solo. She named the project after a sign she saw in the abode of Pope Celestine V, which translates as 'a room of one's own', and which Smith felt best described her solitary method of photography.[48] The exhibition featured artifacts which were the everyday items or places of significance of artists whom Smith admires, including Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Keats and Blake.
In February 2012, she was a guest at the Sanremo Music Festival.
Patti Smith's newest album, Banga (Believe or explode), was released in early June 2012 with critical acclaim. Music Journalist Hal Horowitz wrote : "These songs aren’t as loud or frantic as those of her late 70s heyday, but they resonate just as boldly as she moans, chants, speaks and spits out lyrics with the grace and determination of Mohammad Ali in his prime. It’s not an easy listen—the vast majority of her music never has been—but if you’re a fan and/or prepared for the challenge, this is as potent, heady and uncompromising as she has ever gotten, and with Smith’s storied history as a musical maverick, that’s saying plenty."[49] Overall, she has stayed true to her style of blending rock and poetry.



 Patti Smith performing at Haldern Pop 2014
Smith provides lead vocals on the title track to Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist, Flea's 2012 debut solo EP titled Helen Burns.
Smith was honored by Bryn Mawr College by receiving the 2013 Katharine Hepburn Medal on February 7, 2013.
Pope Francis greeted Smith, among other officials, visitors, and faithful, in St. Peter's Square on 11 April 2013.[50] Although Smith maintains she is not Catholic, she says she followed[clarification needed] the Conclave after Benedict XVI´s resignation.
Smith recorded the song Capitol Letter for the official soundtrack of the second film of the Hunger Games-series The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.[51]
As of late December 2013 Smith was working on her second book and still performing.[52]
The Vatican announced that Smith will play at the Concerto di Natale, the official Vatican Christmas Concert, on December 13; the performance, to be held at Rome's Auditorium Conciliazione, will also be broadcast live on television.[53]
Influence[edit]



Provinssirock festival, Seinäjoki, Finland, June 16, 2007
Smith has been a great source of inspiration for Michael Stipe of R.E.M. Listening to her album Horses (album) when he was 15 made a huge impact on him; he said later, "I decided then that I was going to start a band."[54] In 1998, Stipe published a collection of photos called Two Times Intro: On the Road with Patti Smith. Stipe sings backing vocals on Smith's songs "Last Call" and "Glitter in Their Eyes." Patti also sings background vocals on R.E.M.'s songs "E-Bow the Letter" and "Blue".
The Australian alternative rock band, The Go-Betweens dedicated a track (When She Sang About Angels) off their 2000 album, The Friends of Rachel Worth, to Smith's long time influence.[55]
In 2004, Shirley Manson of Garbage spoke of Smith's influence on her in Rolling Stone's issue "The Immortals: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time", in which Patti Smith was counted number 47.[56] The Smiths members Morrissey and Johnny Marr shared an appreciation for Smith's Horses, and reveal that their song "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" is a reworking of one of the album's tracks, "Kimberly".[57] In 2004, Sonic Youth released an album called Hidros 3 (to Patti Smith).[58] U2 also cites Patti Smith as an influence.[59] In 2005 Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall released the single "Suddenly I See" as a tribute of sorts to Patti Smith.[60] Canadian actress Ellen Page frequently mentions Smith as one of her idols and has done various photo shoots replicating famous Smith photos, as well as Irish actress Maria Doyle Kennedy who often refers to Smith as a major influence.[61] In 1978 and 1979, Gilda Radner portrayed a character called Candy Slice on Saturday Night Live based on Smith.
Alternative rock singer-songwriter Courtney Love of Hole heavily credited Smith as being a huge influence on her; Love received Smith's album Horses in juvenile hall as a teenager, and "realized that you could do something that was completely subversive that didn't involve violence [or] felonies. I stopped making trouble," said Love. "I stopped."[62] Hole's classic track "Violet" features the lyrics "And the sky was all violet / I want it again, but violent, more violent", alluding to lyrics from Smith's "Kimberly".[63] Love later stated that she considered "Rock n Roll Nigger" the greatest rock song of all time.[64]
American pop-dance singer Madonna has also named Smith as one of her biggest influences.[65]
Anglo-Celtic rock band The Waterboys' debut single, "A Girl Called Johnny", was written as a tribute to Smith.[66]
The influence of Smith's music is featured in two award-winning young adult novels by Meagan Brothers, Debbie Harry Sings in French and especially Supergirl Mixtapes.
Activism[edit]
In 1993, Smith contributed "Memorial Tribute (Live)" to the AIDS-Benefit Album No Alternative produced by the Red Hot Organization.
Furthermore, Smith has been a supporter of the Green Party and backed Ralph Nader in the 2000 United States presidential election.[67] She led the crowd singing "Over the Rainbow" and "People Have the Power" at the campaign's rallies, and also performed at several of Nader's subsequent "Democracy Rising" events.[68] Smith was a speaker and singer at the first protests against the Iraq War as U.S. President George W. Bush spoke to the United Nations General Assembly. Smith supported Democratic candidate John Kerry in the 2004 election. Bruce Springsteen continued performing her "People Have the Power" at Vote for Change campaign events. In the winter of 2004/2005, Smith toured again with Nader in a series of rallies against the Iraq War and called for the impeachment of George W. Bush.[67]
Smith premiered two new protest songs in London in September 2006.[69] Louise Jury, writing in The Independent, characterized them as "an emotional indictment of American and Israeli foreign policy". The song "Qana"[70] was about the Israeli airstrike on the Lebanese village of Qana. "Without Chains"[71] is about Murat Kurnaz, a Turkish citizen who was born and raised in Germany, held at Guantanamo Bay detainment camp for four years. Jury's article quotes Smith as saying:

I wrote both these songs directly in response to events that I felt outraged about. These are injustices against children and the young men and women who are being incarcerated. I'm an American, I pay taxes in my name and they are giving millions and millions of dollars to a country such as Israel and cluster bombs and defense technology and those bombs were dropped on common citizens in Qana. It's terrible. It's a human rights violation.
In an interview, Smith stated that Kurnaz's family has contacted her and that she wrote a short preface for the book that he was writing.[72] Kurnaz's book, "Five Years of My Life," was published in English by Palgrave Macmillan in March 2008, with Patti's introduction.[73]
On March 26, 2003, ten days after Rachel Corrie's death, Smith appeared in Austin, Texas, and performed an anti-war concert. She subsequently wrote a song "Peaceable Kingdom" which was inspired by and is dedicated to Rachel Corrie.[74]
In 2009, in her Meltdown concert in Festival Hall, she paid homage to the Iranians taking part in post-election protests by saying "Where is My Vote?" in a version of the song "People Have the Power".[75]
Band members[edit]



Bowery Ballroom, New York City, December 31, 2007
1974
Lenny Kaye – guitar

1974
Lenny Kaye – guitar
Richard Sohl – keyboards

1975–1977
Lenny Kaye – guitar, bass
Richard Sohl – keyboards
Ivan Kral – guitar, bass
Jay Dee Daugherty – drums

1978
Lenny Kaye – guitar, bass
Ivan Kral – guitar, bass
Jay Dee Daugherty – drums
Bruce Brody– keyboards

1979
Lenny Kaye – guitar, bass
Richard Sohl – keyboards
Ivan Kral – guitar, bass
Jay Dee Daugherty – drums

1988
Fred "Sonic" Smith – guitar
Richard Sohl – keyboards
Jay Dee Daugherty – drums

1996
Lenny Kaye – guitar
Jay Dee Daugherty – drums
Tony Shanahan – bass
Luis Resto– keyboards

1996-2005
Lenny Kaye – guitar
Jay Dee Daugherty – drums
Tony Shanahan – bass, keyboards
Oliver Ray – guitar

2006
Lenny Kaye – guitar
Jay Dee Daugherty – drums
Tony Shanahan – keyboards, bass
Tom Verlaine – guitar
Flea – bass and trumpet

2007–present
Lenny Kaye – guitar
Jay Dee Daugherty – drums
Tony Shanahan – bass, keyboards
Jack Petruzzelli – guitar, bass, keyboards

Discography[edit]
Main article: Patti Smith discography
Studio albumsHorses (1975)
Radio Ethiopia (1976)
Easter (1978)
Wave (1979)
Dream of Life (1988)
Gone Again (1996)
Peace and Noise (1997)
Gung Ho (2000)
Trampin' (2004)
Twelve (2007)
Banga (2012)
Bibliography[edit]
Seventh Heaven (1972)
Early Morning Dream (1972)
Witt (1973)
Ha! Ha! Houdini! (1977)
Babel (1978)
Woolgathering (1992)
Early Work (1994)
The Coral Sea (1996)
Patti Smith Complete (1998)
Strange Messenger (2003)
Auguries of Innocence (2005)
Poems (Vintage Classics) by William Blake.
 Edited by and with introduction by Patti Smith (2007)
Land 250 (2008)
Trois (2008)
Great Lyricists foreword Rick Moody (2008)
Just Kids (2010)
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34.Jump up ^ NBCC Awards Night: President’s Welcome, Jane Ciabattari, Critical Mass, March 12, 2011; accessed April 15, 2011.
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38.Jump up ^ Carson, Tom (2010-01-29). "The Night Belongs to Us". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-02-10.
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40.Jump up ^ "Costa Concordia was the set for a movie directed by Jean-Luc Godard". To Be A Travel Agent.
41.Jump up ^ "Pratt Institute's 2010 Commencement Ceremony at Radio City Music Hall". Pratt.edu. 2010-04-28. Retrieved 2011-07-15.
42.Jump up ^ "Video of Smith's speech". Youtube.com. Retrieved 2011-07-15.
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63.Jump up ^ The lyrics to Hole's 1994 track "Violet" include the line: "And the sky was all violet / I want it again but violent, more violent". Smith's song "Kimberly" also includes the phrase "violent, violet sky".
64.Jump up ^ Love, Courtney. "Fashion Faux Paus". Running Russell Simmons. 2010-11-20. Oxygen Network.
65.Jump up ^ "Patti Smith's Gloria inspired Madonna". Au.news.yahoo.com. 2012-04-17. Retrieved 2012-06-10.
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Further reading[edit]
Bockris, Victor; Roberta Bayley (1999-09-14). Patti Smith: An Unauthorized Biography. translated by Jesús Llorente Sanjuán. New York City: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-82363-8.
Johnstone, Nick (September 1997). Patti Smith: A Biography. illustrated by Nick Johnstone. London: Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-7119-6193-7.
McNeil, Legs; Gillian McCain (2006-05-09). Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk. Grove Press. ISBN 978-0-8021-4264-1.
Shaw, Philip (2008). Horses. Continuum. ISBN 978-0-8264-2792-2.
Stefanko, Frank (2006-10-24). Patti Smith: American Artist. San Rafael: Insight Editions. ISBN 978-1-933784-06-9.
Stipe, Michael (1998). Two Times Intro: On the Road With Patti Smith. Little Brown & Co. ISBN 978-0-316-81572-7.
Tarr, Joe (2008-05-30). The Words and Music of Patti Smith. Praeger Publishers. ISBN 978-0-275-99411-2.
External links[edit]
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I Will Always Live Like Peter Pan. 70 min interview from the Louisiana Literature festival 2012. Video by Louisiana Channel.
Patti Smith: Advice to the young. Filmed at Louisiana Literature festival 2012. Video interview by Louisiana Channel.
Patti Smith: First encounters with Robert Mapplethorpe. Filmed at Louisiana Literature festival 2012. Video interview by Louisiana Channel.


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Patti Smith
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Patti Smith performing at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1978

Background information

Birth name
Patricia Lee Smith
Born
December 30, 1946 (age 68)
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Origin
New York City
Genres
Rock, protopunk, punk rock, art punk, blues rock
Occupation(s)
Singer-songwriter, poet, artist
Instruments
Vocals, guitar, clarinet
Years active
1971–present
Labels
Arista, Columbia
Associated acts
Tom Verlaine
Website
www.pattismith.net
Patricia Lee"Patti" Smith(born December 30, 1946)[1]is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artistwho became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rockmovement with her 1975 debut album Horses.[2]
Called the "punk poet laureate", Smith fused rock and poetry in her work. Smith's most widely known song is "Because the Night", which was co-written with Bruce Springsteenand reached number 13 on the BillboardHot 100chart in 1978.[2]In 2005, Patti Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettresby the French Ministry of Culture,[3]and in 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[4]On November 17, 2010, she won the National Book Awardfor her memoir Just Kids.[5]She is also a recipient of the 2011 Polar Music Prize.


Contents [hide]
1Life and career1.11946–1967: Early life
1.21967–1973: New York
1.31974–1979: Patti Smith Group
1.41980–1995: Marriage
1.51996–2003: Re-emergence
1.62004–present
2Influence
3Activism
4Band members
5Discography
6Bibliography
7References
8Further reading
9External links

Life and career[edit]
1946–1967: Early life[edit]
Patricia Lee Smith was born in Chicago.[1]Her mother, Beverly, was a waitress, and her father, Grant, worked at the Honeywellplant. The family was of Irish heritage.[citation needed]She spent her early childhood in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia,[6]before her family moved to Woodbury Gardens, Deptford Township, New Jersey.[7][8]Her mother was a Jehovah's Witness. Patti had a strong religious upbringing and a Bibleeducation, but left organized religionas a teenager because she felt it was too confining; much later, she wrote the line "Jesusdied for somebody's sins, but not mine" in her cover version of Them's "Gloria" in response to this experience.[9]She has described having an avid interest in Tibetan Buddhism around the age of eleven or twelve, saying "I fell in love with Tibet because their essential mission was to keep a continual stream of prayer," but that as an adult she sees clear parallels between different forms of religion, and has come to the conclusion that religious dogmas are "...man-made laws that you can either decide to abide by or not."[10]At this early age Smith was exposed to her first records, including Shrimp Boatsby Harry Belafonte, Patience and Prudencedoing The Money Tree, and Another Side of Bob Dylan, which her mother gave to her. Smith graduated from Deptford Township High Schoolin 1964 and went to work in a factory.[2][11]She gave birth to her first child, a daughter, on April 26, 1967, and chose to place her for adoption.[11]
1967–1973: New York[edit]
In 1967, she left Glassboro State College (now Rowan University) and moved to New York City. She met photographer Robert Mapplethorpethere while working at a book store with a friend, poet Janet Hamill. She and Mapplethorpe had an intense romantic relationship, which was tumultuous as the pair struggled with times of poverty, and Mapplethorpe with his own sexuality. Smith considers Mapplethorpe to be one of the most important people in her life, and in her book Just Kidsrefers to him as "the artist of my life". Mapplethorpe's photographs of her became the covers for the Patti Smith Group LPs, and they remained friends until Mapplethorpe's death in 1989.[12]In 1969 she went to Paris with her sister and started buskingand doing performance art.[7]When Smith returned to New York City, she lived in the Hotel Chelseawith Mapplethorpe; they frequented Max's Kansas Cityand CBGB. Smith provided the spoken word soundtrack for Sandy Daley's art film Robert Having His Nipple Pierced, starring Mapplethorpe. The same year Smith appeared with Wayne Countyin Jackie Curtis's play Femme Fatale. As a member of the St. Mark's Poetry Project, she spent the early 1970s painting, writing, and performing. In 1971 she performed – for one night only – in Cowboy Mouth,[13]a play that she co-wrote with Sam Shepard. (The published play's notes call for "a man who looks like a coyote and a woman who looks like a crow".) She wrote several poems, "for sam shepard"[14]and "Sam Shepard: 9 Random Years (7 + 2)"[15]about her relationship with Shepard.
Smith was briefly considered for the lead singer position in Blue Öyster Cult. She contributed lyrics to several of the band's songs, including "Debbie Denise" (inspired by her poem "In Remembrance of Debbie Denise"), "Baby Ice Dog", "Career of Evil", "Fire of Unknown Origin", "The Revenge of Vera Gemini" (on which she performs duet vocals), and "Shooting Shark". She was romantically involved at the time with the band's keyboardist, Allen Lanier. During these years, Smith also wrote rock journalism, some of which was published in Rolling Stoneand Creem.[16]
1974–1979: Patti Smith Group[edit]




Tivolis Koncertsal, Copenhagen, October 6, 1976
By 1974, Patti Smith was performing rock music herself, initially with guitarist, bassistand rock archivist Lenny Kaye, and later with a full band comprising Kaye, Ivan Kralon guitarand bass, Jay Dee Daughertyon drumsand Richard Sohlon piano. Ivan Kral was a refugee from Czechoslovakia, he moved to the USA in 1966 with his parents who were diplomats. After the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakiain 1968, Kral decided not to return.[17]Financed by Sam Wagstaff, the band recorded a first single, "Hey Joe/ Piss Factory", in 1974. The A-side was a version of the rock standard with the addition of a spoken wordpiece about fugitive heiress Patty Hearst("Patty Hearst, you're standing there in front of the Symbionese Liberation Armyflag with your legs spread, I was wondering were you gettin' it every night from a black revolutionary man and his women...").[18]The B-side describes the helpless anger Smith had felt while working on a factory assembly lineand the salvation she discovered in the form of a shoplifted book, the 19th century Frenchpoet Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations.[2]In a 1996 interview which discusses artistic influences during her young years, Smith said, "I had devoted so much of my girlish daydreams to Rimbaud. Rimbaud was like my boyfriend."[10]




Smith performing with the Patti Smith Group, in Germany, 1978



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Later that same year, she performed spoken poetry on "I Wake Up Screaming" from Ray Manzarek's The Whole Thing Started with Rock & Roll Now It's Out of Controlalbum.
The Patti Smith Group was signed by Clive Davisof Arista Records, and in 1975 recorded their first album, Horses, produced by John Caleamid some tension. The album fused punk rockand spoken poetryand begins with a cover of Van Morrison's "Gloria", and Smith's opening words: "Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine" (an excerpt from "Oath," one of her early poems). The austere cover photograph by Mapplethorpe has become one of rock's classic images.[19]As the popularity of punk rock grew, Patti Smith Group toured the United States and Europe. The rawer sound of the group's second album, Radio Ethiopia, reflected this. Considerably less accessible than Horses, Radio Ethiopiainitially received poor reviews. However, several of its songs have stood the test of time, and Smith still performs them regularly in concert.[20]She has said that Radio Ethiopiawas influenced by the band MC5.[10]
On January 23, 1977, while touring in support of Radio Ethiopia, Smith accidentally danced off a high stage in Tampa, Florida, and fell 15 feet into a concrete orchestra pit, breaking several neck vertebrae.[21]The injury required a period of rest and an intensive round of physical therapy, during which time she was able to reassess, re-energize and reorganize her life. Patti Smith Group produced two further albums before the end of the 1970s. Easter(1978) was her most commercially successful record, containing the single "Because the Night" co-written with Bruce Springsteen. Wave(1979) was less successful, although the songs "Frederick" and "Dancing Barefoot" both received commercial airplay.[22]
1980–1995: Marriage[edit]




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Smith with her daughter Jesse Smith at the 2011 Time 100gala
Before the release of Wave, Smith, now separated from long-time partner Allen Lanier, met Fred "Sonic" Smith, former guitar player for Detroitrock band MC5and his own Sonic's Rendezvous Band, who adored poetry as much as she did. (Wave's "Dancing Barefoot" and "Frederick" were both dedicated to him.)[23]The running joke at the time was that she married Fred only because she would not have to change her name.[24]They had a son, Jackson (b. 1982) who would go on to marry The White Stripesdrummer, Meg Whitein 2009;[25]and a daughter, Jesse (b. 1987). Through most of the 1980s Patti Smith was in semi-retirement from music, living with her family north of Detroit in St. Clair Shores, Michigan. In June 1988, she released the album Dream of Life, which included the song "People Have the Power". Fred Smith died on November 4, 1994, of a heart attack. Shortly afterward, Patti faced the unexpected death of her brother Todd[7]and original keyboard player Richard Sohl. When her son Jackson turned 14, Smith decided to move back to New York. After the impact of these deaths, her friends Michael Stipeof R.E.M.and Allen Ginsberg(whom she had known since her early years in New York) urged her to go back out on the road. She toured briefly with Bob Dylanin December 1995 (chronicled in a book of photographs by Stipe).[13]
1996–2003: Re-emergence[edit]




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In 1996, Smith worked with her long-time colleagues to record Gone Again,featuring "About a Boy", a tribute to Kurt Cobain. That same year she collaborated with Stipe on "E-Bow the Letter", a song on R.E.M.'s New Adventures in Hi-Fi,which she has also performed live with the band.[26]After release of Gone Again,Patti Smith recorded two new albums: Peace and Noisein 1997 (with the single "1959", about the invasion of Tibet) and Gung Hoin 2000 (with songs about Ho Chi Minhand Smith's late father). Songs "1959" and "Glitter in Their Eyes" were nominated for Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.[27]A box set of her work up to that time, The Patti Smith Masters,came out in 1996, and 2002 saw the release of Land (1975–2002),a two-CD compilation that includes a memorable cover of Prince's "When Doves Cry". Smith's solo art exhibitionStrange Messengerwas hosted at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburghon September 28, 2002.[28]
2004–present[edit]




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On April 27, 2004, Patti Smith released Trampin'which included several songs about motherhood, partly in tribute to Smith's mother, who had died two years before. It was her first album on Columbia Records, soon to become a sister labelto her previous home Arista Records. Smith curated the Meltdown festivalin London on June 25, 2005, the penultimate event being the first live performance of Horsesin its entirety.[29]Guitarist Tom Verlainetook Oliver Ray's place. This live performance was released later in the year as Horses/Horses.




TIM festival, Marina da Glória,
Rio de Janeiro, October 28, 2006
On July 10, 2005, Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettresby the French Ministry of Culture.[3]In addition to Smith's influence on rock music, the Minister also noted her appreciation of Arthur Rimbaud. In August 2005, Smith gave a literary lecture about the poems of Arthur Rimbaud and William Blake. On October 15, 2006, Patti Smith performed at the CBGBnightclub, with a 3½-hour tour de forceto close out Manhattan's music venue. She took the stage at 9:30 p.m. (EDT) and closed for the night (and forever for the venue) at a few minutes after 1:00 a.m., performing her song "Elegie", and finally reading a list of punk rock musicians and advocates who had died in the previous years.[30]
On November 10, 2005, Smith received the Woman of Valor Award from ROCKRGRLMagazine at the ROCKRGRL Music Conference, marking the 30th Anniversary of the release of "Horses."
Smith was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fameon March 12, 2007.[4]She dedicated her award to the memory of her late husband, Fred, and gave a performance of The Rolling Stonesstaple "Gimme Shelter". As the closing number of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, Smith's "People Have the Power" was used for the big celebrity jam that always ends the program.[31]
From November 2006 - January 2007, an exhibition called 'Sur les Traces'[32]at Trolley Gallery, London, featured polaroidprints taken by Patti Smith and donated to Trolley to raise awareness and funds for the publication of Double Blind, a book on the war in Lebanonin 2006, with photographs by Paolo Pellegrin, a member of Magnum Photos. She also participated in the DVDcommentary for Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters. From March 28 to June 22, 2008, the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporainin Paris hosted a major exhibition of the visual artwork of Patti Smith, Land 250, drawn from pieces created between 1967 and 2007.[33]At the 2008 Rowan Commencement ceremony, Smith received an honorary doctorate degree for her contributions to popular culture.




Smith with National Book Critics CirclePresident Jane Ciabattari and NBCC board member John Reed. Smith's memoir Just Kidswas an NBCC autobiography finalist at the 2010 awards.[34]
Smith is the subject of a 2008 documentary film, Patti Smith: Dream of Life.[35]A live album by Patti Smith and Kevin Shields, The Coral Seawas released in July 2008. On September 10, 2009, after a week of smaller events and exhibitions in the city, Smith played an open-air concert in Florence's Piazza Santa Croce, commemorating her performance in the same city 30 years earlier.[36]In the meantime, she contributed with a special introduction to Jessica Lange's book 50 Photographs(2009).[37]In 2010, Patti Smith's book, Just Kids, a memoir of her time in 1970s Manhattan and her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe, was published; it later won the National Book Award for Nonfiction.[5][38]On April 30, 2010, Patti Smith headlined a benefit concert headed by band-mate Tony Shanahan, for The Court Tavern of New Brunswick.[39]Smith's set included "Gloria", "Because the Night" and "People Have the Power." She has a brief cameo in Jean-Luc Godard's 2010 Film Socialisme, which was first screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.[40]
On May 17, 2010, Patti Smith received an honorary doctorate in fine arts from Pratt Institute, along with architect Daniel Libeskind, MoMAdirector Glenn Lowry, former NYC Landmarks Commissioner Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, novelist Jonathan Lethem, and director Steven Soderbergh.[41]Following the conferral of her degree, Smith delivered the commencement address[42]and sang/played two songs accompanied by long-time band member Lenny Kaye. In her remarks, Smith explained that in 1967 when she moved to New York City (Brooklyn), she would never have been accepted into Pratt, but most of her friends (including Mapplethorpe) were students at Pratt and she spent countless hours on the Pratt campus. She added that it was through her friends and their Pratt professors that she learned much of her own artistic skills, making the honour from the institute particularly poignant for Smith 43 years later.[43]
Smith is currently working on a crime novel set in London. "I've been working on a detective story that starts at the St Giles in the Fieldschurch in London for the last two years," she told NMEadding that she "loved detective stories" having been a fan of Sherlock Holmesand US crime author Mickey Spillaneas a girl.[44]Part of the book will be set in Gothenburg, Sweden.[45]
On May 3, 2011, it was announced that Patti Smith is one of the winners of the Polar Music Prize: "By devoting her life to art in all its forms, Patti Smith has demonstrated how much rock’n'roll there is in poetry and how much poetry there is in rock’n'roll. Patti Smith is a Rimbaud with Marshall amps. She has transformed the way an entire generation looks, thinks and dreams. With her inimitable soul of an artist, Patti Smith proves over and over again that people have the power."
On June 19, 2011, Patti Smith made her television acting debut on the TV series Law & Order: Criminal Intent, appearing in an episode called "Icarus".[46]
Smith has recorded a cover of Buddy Holly's classic "Words of Love" for the CD Rave On Buddy Holly, a tribute album tied to Holly's seventy-fifth birthday year which was released June 28, 2011.[47]
Smith also contributed a track to "AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered", a U2covers album released through Q Magazine on October 25, 2011. Smith recorded a cover of "Until The End Of The World" for the compilation.
More recently, Smith has devoted her time to what she terms 'pure photography' (a method of capturing still objects without using a flash), which she began to pursue following the death of her husband in 1994.[48]In 2011, Smith announced the first museum exhibition of her photography in the United States, Camera Solo. She named the project after a sign she saw in the abode of Pope Celestine V, which translates as 'a room of one's own', and which Smith felt best described her solitary method of photography.[48]The exhibition featured artifacts which were the everyday items or places of significance of artists whom Smith admires, including Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Keatsand Blake.
In February 2012, she was a guest at the Sanremo Music Festival.
Patti Smith's newest album, Banga (Believe or explode), was released in early June 2012 with critical acclaim. Music Journalist Hal Horowitz wrote : "These songs aren’t as loud or frantic as those of her late 70s heyday, but they resonate just as boldly as she moans, chants, speaks and spits out lyrics with the grace and determination of Mohammad Ali in his prime. It’s not an easy listen—the vast majority of her music never has been—but if you’re a fan and/or prepared for the challenge, this is as potent, heady and uncompromising as she has ever gotten, and with Smith’s storied history as a musical maverick, that’s saying plenty."[49]Overall, she has stayed true to her style of blending rock and poetry.




Patti Smith performing at Haldern Pop2014
Smith provides lead vocals on the title track to Red Hot Chili Peppersbassist, Flea's 2012 debut solo EP titled Helen Burns.
Smith was honored by Bryn Mawr Collegeby receiving the 2013 Katharine HepburnMedal on February 7, 2013.
Pope Francisgreeted Smith, among other officials, visitors, and faithful, in St. Peter's Squareon 11 April 2013.[50]Although Smith maintains she is not Catholic, she says she followed[clarification needed]the Conclaveafter Benedict XVI´s resignation.
Smith recorded the song Capitol Letterfor the official soundtrackof the second film of the Hunger Games-series The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.[51]
As of late December 2013 Smith was working on her second book and still performing.[52]
The Vatican announced that Smith will play at the Concerto di Natale, the official Vatican Christmas Concert, on December 13; the performance, to be held at Rome's Auditorium Conciliazione, will also be broadcast live on television.[53]
Influence[edit]




Provinssirockfestival, Seinäjoki, Finland, June 16, 2007
Smith has been a great source of inspiration for Michael Stipeof R.E.M.Listening to her album Horses (album)when he was 15 made a huge impact on him; he said later, "I decided then that I was going to start a band."[54]In 1998, Stipe published a collection of photos called Two Times Intro: On the Road with Patti Smith.Stipe sings backing vocals on Smith's songs "Last Call" and "Glitter in Their Eyes." Patti also sings background vocals on R.E.M.'s songs "E-Bow the Letter" and "Blue".
The Australianalternative rockband, The Go-Betweensdedicated a track (When She Sang About Angels) off their 2000 album, The Friends of Rachel Worth, to Smith's long time influence.[55]
In 2004, Shirley Mansonof Garbagespoke of Smith's influence on her in Rolling Stone's issue "The Immortals: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time", in which Patti Smith was counted number 47.[56]The Smithsmembers Morrisseyand Johnny Marrshared an appreciation for Smith's Horses,and reveal that their song "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" is a reworking of one of the album's tracks, "Kimberly".[57]In 2004, Sonic Youthreleased an album called Hidros 3 (to Patti Smith).[58]U2also cites Patti Smith as an influence.[59]In 2005 Scottishsinger-songwriter KT Tunstallreleased the single "Suddenly I See" as a tribute of sorts to Patti Smith.[60]Canadianactress Ellen Pagefrequently mentions Smith as one of her idols and has done various photo shoots replicating famous Smith photos, as well as Irish actress Maria Doyle Kennedywho often refers to Smith as a major influence.[61]In 1978 and 1979, Gilda Radnerportrayed a character called Candy Sliceon Saturday Night Livebased on Smith.
Alternative rock singer-songwriter Courtney Loveof Holeheavily credited Smith as being a huge influence on her; Love received Smith's album Horsesin juvenile hall as a teenager, and "realized that you could do something that was completely subversive that didn't involve violence [or] felonies. I stopped making trouble," said Love. "I stopped."[62]Hole's classic track "Violet" features the lyrics "And the sky was all violet / I want it again, but violent, more violent", alluding to lyrics from Smith's "Kimberly".[63]Love later stated that she considered "Rock n Roll Nigger" the greatest rock song of all time.[64]
American pop-dance singer Madonnahas also named Smith as one of her biggest influences.[65]
Anglo-Celtic rock band The Waterboys' debut single, "A Girl Called Johnny", was written as a tribute to Smith.[66]
The influence of Smith's music is featured in two award-winning young adult novels by Meagan Brothers, Debbie Harry Sings in Frenchand especially Supergirl Mixtapes.
Activism[edit]
In 1993, Smith contributed "Memorial Tribute (Live)" to the AIDS-Benefit Album No Alternativeproduced by the Red Hot Organization.
Furthermore, Smith has been a supporter of the Green Partyand backed Ralph Naderin the 2000 United States presidential election.[67]She led the crowd singing "Over the Rainbow" and "People Have the Power" at the campaign's rallies, and also performed at several of Nader's subsequent "Democracy Rising" events.[68]Smith was a speaker and singer at the first protests against the Iraq Waras U.S. President George W. Bushspoke to the United Nations General Assembly. Smith supported Democraticcandidate John Kerryin the 2004 election. Bruce Springsteencontinued performing her "People Have the Power" at Vote for Changecampaign events. In the winter of 2004/2005, Smith toured again with Nader in a series of rallies against the Iraq Warand called for the impeachment of George W. Bush.[67]
Smith premiered two new protest songsin London in September 2006.[69]Louise Jury, writing in The Independent, characterized them as "an emotional indictment of American and Israeliforeign policy". The song "Qana"[70]was about the Israeli airstrike on the Lebanesevillage of Qana. "Without Chains"[71]is about Murat Kurnaz, a Turkishcitizen who was born and raised in Germany, held at Guantanamo Bay detainment campfor four years. Jury's article quotes Smith as saying:

I wrote both these songs directly in response to events that I felt outraged about. These are injustices against children and the young men and women who are being incarcerated. I'm an American, I pay taxes in my name and they are giving millions and millions of dollars to a country such as Israel and cluster bombsand defense technology and those bombs were dropped on common citizens in Qana. It's terrible. It's a human rights violation.
In an interview, Smith stated that Kurnaz's family has contacted her and that she wrote a short preface for the book that he was writing.[72]Kurnaz's book, "Five Years of My Life," was published in English by Palgrave Macmillan in March 2008, with Patti's introduction.[73]
On March 26, 2003, ten days after Rachel Corrie's death, Smith appeared in Austin, Texas, and performed an anti-war concert. She subsequently wrote a song "Peaceable Kingdom" which was inspired by and is dedicated to Rachel Corrie.[74]
In 2009, in her Meltdown concert in Festival Hall, she paid homage to the Iranianstaking part in post-election protestsby saying "Where is My Vote?" in a version of the song "People Have the Power".[75]
Band members[edit]




Bowery Ballroom, New York City, December 31, 2007
1974
Lenny Kaye – guitar

1974
Lenny Kaye – guitar
Richard Sohl – keyboards

1975–1977
Lenny Kaye – guitar, bass
Richard Sohl – keyboards
Ivan Kral – guitar, bass
Jay Dee Daugherty – drums

1978
Lenny Kaye – guitar, bass
Ivan Kral – guitar, bass
Jay Dee Daugherty – drums
Bruce Brody– keyboards

1979
Lenny Kaye – guitar, bass
Richard Sohl – keyboards
Ivan Kral – guitar, bass
Jay Dee Daugherty – drums

1988
Fred "Sonic" Smith – guitar
Richard Sohl – keyboards
Jay Dee Daugherty – drums

1996
Lenny Kaye – guitar
Jay Dee Daugherty – drums
Tony Shanahan – bass
Luis Resto– keyboards

1996-2005
Lenny Kaye – guitar
Jay Dee Daugherty – drums
Tony Shanahan – bass, keyboards
Oliver Ray – guitar

2006
Lenny Kaye – guitar
Jay Dee Daugherty – drums
Tony Shanahan – keyboards, bass
Tom Verlaine – guitar
Flea – bass and trumpet

2007–present
Lenny Kaye – guitar
Jay Dee Daugherty – drums
Tony Shanahan – bass, keyboards
Jack Petruzzelli – guitar, bass, keyboards

Discography[edit]
Main article: Patti Smith discography
Studio albumsHorses(1975)
Radio Ethiopia(1976)
Easter(1978)
Wave(1979)
Dream of Life(1988)
Gone Again(1996)
Peace and Noise(1997)
Gung Ho(2000)
Trampin'(2004)
Twelve(2007)
Banga(2012)
Bibliography[edit]
Seventh Heaven(1972)
Early Morning Dream(1972)
Witt(1973)
Ha! Ha! Houdini!(1977)
Babel(1978)
Woolgathering(1992)
Early Work(1994)
The Coral Sea(1996)
Patti Smith Complete(1998)
Strange Messenger(2003)
Auguries of Innocence(2005)
Poems (Vintage Classics)by William Blake.
Edited by and with introduction by Patti Smith (2007)
Land 250(2008)
Trois(2008)
Great Lyricistsforeword Rick Moody (2008)
Just Kids(2010)
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: abBockris, Victor; Bayley, Roberta (1999). Patti Smith: an unauthorized biography. Simon and Schuster. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-684-82363-8.
2.^ Jump up to: abcdHuey, Steve. "Patti Smith > Biography". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2009-04-18.
3.^ Jump up to: ab"Remise des insignes de Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres à Patti Smith "Solidays""(in French). Paris: French Ministry of Culture. 2005-07-10. Retrieved 2009-04-18.
4.^ Jump up to: ab"Patti Smith". Cleveland, Ohio: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 2007. Retrieved 2009-04-18.
5.^ Jump up to: ab"National Book Awards – 2010". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-02-26. (With acceptance speech, interview, and reading.)
6.Jump up ^1957: a childhood on fire, The Independent , 28 April 2012, inRadar section, with extract fromWoolgathering by Patti Smith.
7.^ Jump up to: abc"Patti Smith – Biography. "Three chord rock merged with the power of the word"". Arista Records. June 1996. Archived from the originalon June 11, 2008. Retrieved 2009-04-19.
8.Jump up ^LaGorce, Tammy (2005-12-11). "Patti Smith, New Jersey's Truest Rock-Poet". The New York Times(New York City: The New York Times Company). Retrieved 2010-07-20. "But of all the ways to know Patti Smith, few people, including Ms. Smith, would think to embrace her as Deptford ramonesproudest export."
9.Jump up ^Robertson, Jessica (2007). "Exclusive Interview with Patti Smith". Spinner. AOL. Retrieved 2008-02-04.[dead link]
10.^ Jump up to: abcMoore, Thurston, “Patti Smith”, BOMB MagazineWinter, 1996. Retrieved 2012-07-18.
11.^ Jump up to: abSmith, Patti (2010). Just Kids, p. 20. HarperCollins, New York. ISBN 978-0-06-621131-2.
12.Jump up ^Smith, Patti (1997-10-17). A conversation with singer Patti Smith(VIDEO). (Interview). Charlie Rose. WNET. New York. Retrieved 2011-01-12.
13.^ Jump up to: ab"Patti Smith: Biography". The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll. Rolling Stone. 2001. Archived from the originalon 2007-12-12. Retrieved 2008-02-04.
14.Jump up ^"for sam shepard," in CreemSept. 1971 link
15.Jump up ^included in Angel City, Curse of the Starving Class & Other Plays (1976), (bibliographic information)
16.Jump up ^Khanna, Vish (May 2007). "Patti Smith Fights the Good Fight - Timeline". Canada: Exclaim!. Retrieved 2008-12-05.[dead link]
17.Jump up ^Bezr, Ondrej (2010-06-25). "Ceský rocker Ivan Král vstoupil s Patti Smith do Kongresové knihovny" [Czech rocker Ivan Král entered the Congress library with Patti Smith]. iDnes(in Czech). Retrieved 2014-08-20.
18.Jump up ^"Hey Joe lyrics". Retrieved 2008-02-04.
19.Jump up ^"Seventies' Greatest Album Covers". Rolling Stone. 1991-11-14. Retrieved 2008-02-04.
20.Jump up ^"Patti Smith setlists, 2007". Retrieved 2008-02-07.
21.Jump up ^"Patti Smith chronology". Retrieved 2008-02-04.
22.Jump up ^Smith, Patti (2002). "Song of the Week: Dancing Barefoot". Archived from the originalon 2008-01-12. Retrieved 2008-02-26.
23.Jump up ^Deming, Mark. "Dancing Barefoot". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-02-07.
24.Jump up ^"Babel-list". 1999. Retrieved 2008-02-07.
25.Jump up ^"Meg White and Jackson Smith wed in Nashville". The Seattle Times. seattletimes.com. 2009-05-26. Retrieved 2012-10-19.
26.Jump up ^Stephen Thomas Erlewine. "New Adventures in Hi-Fi". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-02-07.
27.Jump up ^"Grammy Awards: Best Rock Vocal Performance - Female". Retrieved 2008-03-06.
28.Jump up ^"The Andy Warhol Museum Announces Patti Smith Performance and Retrospective Exhibition"(PDF). The Andy Warhol Museum. 2002-05-03. Archived from the original(PDF)on December 31, 2006. Retrieved 2008-03-19.
29.Jump up ^Vulliamy, Ed (2005-06-03). "Some give a song. Some give a life...". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 2008-02-08.
30.Jump up ^Pareles, Jon (2006-10-16). "Fans of a Groundbreaking Club Mourn and Then Move On". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-02-04.
31.Jump up ^"Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2007 Induction". Spinner. 2007. Retrieved 2008-02-04.[dead link]
32.Jump up ^"Sur les Traces". Trolley Gallery Books. Trolley Gallery. Retrieved 2010-07-20.
33.Jump up ^"Patti Smith, Land 250". Fondation Cartier. 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-13.
34.Jump up ^NBCC Awards Night: President’s Welcome, Jane Ciabattari, Critical Mass, March 12, 2011; accessed April 15, 2011.
35.Jump up ^Patti Smith: Dream of Life, Variety, January 29, 2008. Accessed online May 23, 2008.
36.Jump up ^Patti Smith and Florence, a never-ending story[dead link], Agenzia per il Turismo, Firenze, July, 2009. Retrieved September 30, 2009.
37.Jump up ^Pompeo, Joe (2008-08-21). "Jessica Lange and Patti Smith Team Up". The Observer. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved 2011-05-11.
38.Jump up ^Carson, Tom (2010-01-29). "The Night Belongs to Us". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-02-10.
39.Jump up ^Jordan, Chris (April 30, 2010). "Patti Smith, Bands Unite to Save the Court Tavern in New Brunswick". Courier News. Gannett Company. Retrieved October 6,2010.[dead link]
40.Jump up ^"Costa Concordia was the set for a movie directed by Jean-Luc Godard". To Be A Travel Agent.
41.Jump up ^"Pratt Institute's 2010 Commencement Ceremony at Radio City Music Hall". Pratt.edu. 2010-04-28. Retrieved 2011-07-15.
42.Jump up ^"Video of Smith's speech". Youtube.com. Retrieved 2011-07-15.
43.Jump up ^Murg, Stephanie (2010-05-20). "Patti Smith doesn't disappoint at Pratt's commencement". Mediabistro.com. Retrieved 2011-07-15.
44.Jump up ^"Patti Smith writing detective novel". Nme.Com. Retrieved 2011-02-21.
45.Jump up ^/ TT Spektra (2011-02-17). "Patti Smith skriver deckare - Kultur & Nöje"(in Swedish). www.gp.se. Retrieved 2011-02-21.
46.Jump up ^Stanhope, Kate (2011-06-16). "Exclusive First Look: Punk Rocker Patti Smith Makes Her Acting Debut on Law & Order: CI". TV Guide. Retrieved 2011-06-21.
47.Jump up ^Burger, David (April 28, 2011). "Paul McCartney, Fiona Apple, Modest Mouse, My Morning Jacket and more cover Buddy Holly on Holly's 75th b-day year". The Salt Lake Tribune. MediaNews Group. Retrieved May 10,2011.
48.^ Jump up to: ab"BBC News - Patti Smith: The extended BBC interview". Bbc.co.uk. 2012-01-19. Retrieved 2013-08-08.
49.Jump up ^"Patti Smith: Banga". American Songwriter. Retrieved 8 June2012.
50.Jump up ^Pope greets American rock star, Patti Smith. Rome Reports. Published: 11 April 2013.
51.Jump up ^"'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' Soundtrack Features Coldplay, Patti Smith, The National, The Weeknd & More | The Playlist". Blogs.indiewire.com. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
52.Jump up ^Patti Smith set to play Space at Westbury Newsday December 23, 2013
53.Jump up ^http://pitchfork.com/news/57460-patti-smith-to-perform-at-vatican-christmas-concert/
54.Jump up ^Scaggs, Austin (2004-10-06). "Q&A: Michael Stipe". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2008-02-04.[dead link]
55.Jump up ^Horowitz, Hal. "The Friends of Rachel Worth - The Go-Betweens". AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-04-09.
56.Jump up ^Manson, Shirley (2004-04-15). "The Immortals: The First Fifty". Issue 946. Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2008-02-04.
57.Jump up ^Goddard, Simon (2006-05-01). The Smiths: Songs That Saved Your Life(3rd ed.). Reynolds & Hearn. ISBN 1-905287-14-3. Retrieved 2014-04-08.
58.Jump up ^"Hidros 3 (To Patti Smith)". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-02-04.
59.Jump up ^Wenner, Jann (2005-11-03). "Bono Interview". Issue 986. Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2008-02-15.[dead link]
60.Jump up ^Lamb, Bill, KT Tunstall - Suddenly I See, Top40.About.Com, Retrieved October 26, 2007 [1]
61.Jump up ^O'Brien, Glen; Fabian Baron, Drew Barrymore (Interviewer) (March 2008). "Ellen Page". Interview Magazine(Peter Brant) (March 2008).
62.Jump up ^"Courtney Love". Behind the Music. 2010-06-21. VH1.
63.Jump up ^The lyrics to Hole's 1994 track "Violet" include the line: "And the sky was all violet / I want it again but violent, more violent". Smith's song "Kimberly" also includes the phrase "violent, violet sky".
64.Jump up ^Love, Courtney. "Fashion Faux Paus". Running Russell Simmons. 2010-11-20. Oxygen Network.
65.Jump up ^"Patti Smith's Gloria inspired Madonna". Au.news.yahoo.com. 2012-04-17. Retrieved 2012-06-10.
66.Jump up ^Larkin, Colin, ed. (2011). "Waterboys". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. London: Omnium Press. p. 3818. ISBN 9780857125958. Retrieved 11 May2015.
67.^ Jump up to: abArthur, Deyva (2005). "Patti Smith reaffirms that people have the power". Volume 9 / Issue 2. Green Pages. Retrieved 2008-02-08.
68.Jump up ^"History of Democracy Rising". George Washington University. Retrieved 2012-11-13.
69.Jump up ^Jury, Louise (2006-09-09). "Patti Smith Rails Against Israel and US". The Independent(London: Independent Print Limited). Retrieved 2008-02-08.
70.Jump up ^"Qana" mp3at PattiSmith.net
71.Jump up ^"Without Chains" mp3at PattiSmith.net
72.Jump up ^Tayla, Alican; Çigdem Öztürk, Yücel Göktürk (November 2007). "Bir Kamu Çalisani Olarak". Roll(Istanbul, Turkey) (123): 28. ISSN 1307-4628.
73.Jump up ^"Macmillan: Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo Murat Kurnaz: Books". Us.macmillan.com. 2009-12-04. Retrieved 2011-07-15.
74.Jump up ^Jury, Louise (2006-03-25). "Jewish Pressure Drives Gaza Play Out of New York". The Independent(London: Independent Print Limited). Retrieved 2009-02-26.
75.Jump up ^"Patti Smith — People Have The Power". June 18, 2009.
Further reading[edit]
Bockris, Victor; Roberta Bayley (1999-09-14). Patti Smith: An Unauthorized Biography. translated by Jesús Llorente Sanjuán. New York City: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-82363-8.
Johnstone, Nick (September 1997). Patti Smith: A Biography. illustrated by Nick Johnstone. London: Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-7119-6193-7.
McNeil, Legs; Gillian McCain (2006-05-09). Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk. Grove Press. ISBN 978-0-8021-4264-1.
Shaw, Philip (2008). Horses. Continuum. ISBN 978-0-8264-2792-2.
Stefanko, Frank(2006-10-24). Patti Smith: American Artist. San Rafael: Insight Editions. ISBN 978-1-933784-06-9.
Stipe, Michael(1998). Two Times Intro: On the Road With Patti Smith. Little Brown & Co. ISBN 978-0-316-81572-7.
Tarr, Joe (2008-05-30). The Words and Music of Patti Smith. Praeger Publishers. ISBN 978-0-275-99411-2.
External links[edit]
 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Patti Smith.
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I Will Always Live Like Peter Pan.70 min interview from the Louisiana Literature festival2012. Video by Louisiana Channel.
Patti Smith: Advice to the young.Filmed at Louisiana Literature festival2012. Video interview by Louisiana Channel.
Patti Smith: First encounters with Robert Mapplethorpe.Filmed at Louisiana Literature festival2012. Video interview by Louisiana Channel.


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Rodriguez at the 2013 San Diego Comic Con

Born
Mayte Michelle Rodríguez
 July 12, 1978 (age 36)
San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
Occupation
Actress, screenwriter, DJ
Years active
1999–present
Website
www.michellerodriguez.com
Mayte Michelle Rodriguez[1] (/r??'dri?g?z/; born July 12, 1978),[2] better known as Michelle Rodriguez, is an American actress, screenwriter, and DJ.[3] She got her breakout role as a troubled boxer in the independent film Girlfight (2000), which was met with critical acclaim and earned her several awards, including the Independent Spirit Award[4] and Gotham Award for Best Debut Performance.[5] The following year, she starred as Letty Ortiz in the blockbuster film The Fast and the Furious (2001), reprising her role in its sequels Fast & Furious (2009), Fast & Furious 6 (2013), and Furious 7 (2015).
During her career, Rodriguez has played tough, independent women in a number of successful action films, such as Blue Crush, S.W.A.T., Battle: Los Angeles, and Avatar. She is also known for her roles as Shé in the action comedy films Machete and Machete Kills, and Rain Ocampo in the science fiction films Resident Evil and Resident Evil: Retribution.
Rodriguez also branched into television, playing Ana Lucia Cortez in the second season of the television series Lost as part of the main cast before making numerous guest appearances before the series ended. She has also done numerous voice work in video games such as Call of Duty and Halo, and lent her voice for the 3D animated film Turbo and the television series IGPX.[6]
With her films grossing over $5 billion collectively, a 2013 Entertainment Weekly article described Rodriguez as "arguably the most iconic actress in the action genre, as well as one of the most visible Latinas in Hollywood".[7]


Contents  [hide]
1 Early life
2 Career 2.1 Film and television 2.1.1 Typecast
2.2 Screenwriting
2.3 Disc jockey
2.4 Notable rankings
3 Personal life 3.1 Relationships
3.2 Legal issues
4 Filmography 4.1 Film
4.2 Television
4.3 Video games
5 References
6 External links

Early life[edit]
Rodriguez was born in San Antonio, Texas. Her mother, Carmen Milady Rodriguez (born Pared Espinal), is a native of the Dominican Republic, and her father, Rafael Rodriguez, was a Puerto Rican who served in the U.S. Army.[8][9][10] Rodriguez moved to the Dominican Republic with her mother when she was eight years old and lived there until the age of 11. Later she moved to Puerto Rico until the age of 17 and finally settled in Jersey City, New Jersey. She dropped out of high school but later earned her GED;[11] in total, she was expelled from five schools.[12] She briefly attended business school before quitting to pursue a career in acting, with the ultimate goal of becoming a screenwriter and director.[13]
She has ten siblings and half-siblings. She was partly raised by her devoutly religious maternal grandmother, and was brought up a Jehovah's Witness (her mother's religion), although she has since abandoned the faith.[14][15] A DNA test of Rodriguez, performed by the television program Finding Your Roots, found that her ancestry is 72.4% European, 21.3% African, and 6.3% Native American.[16] She also stated on the show that there was some racial conflict between her families, since her Puerto Rican father had a light complexion and her Dominican mother had a dark complexion.
Career[edit]
Film and television[edit]



 Rodriguez at the New York Fashion Week, spring 2006
Having run across an ad for an open casting call and attending her first audition, Rodriguez beat 350 other applicants to win her first role in the low-budget 2000 independent film Girlfight. With her performance as Diana Guzman, a troubled teen who decides to channel her aggression by training to become a boxer,[17] Rodriguez accumulated several awards and nominations for the role in independent circles, including major acting accolades from the National Board of Review, Deauville Film Festival,[18] Independent Spirit Awards,[4] Gotham Awards,[5] Las Vegas Film Critics Sierra Awards, and many others. The film itself took home a top prize at the Sundance[19] and won Award of the Youth at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1999, she auditioned for a role in Sisqó's hit music video, "Thong Song". In 2002, she had a cameo appearance in Ja Rule's music video for his song "Always On Time".
Rodriguez has had notable roles in other successful movies, including Letty Ortiz in The Fast and the Furious (2001) and Rain Ocampo in Resident Evil (2002). She also appeared in Blue Crush and S.W.A.T..[20] In 2004, Rodriguez lent her voice to the video game Halo 2, playing a Marine.[21] She also provided the voice of Liz Ricarro in the Cartoon Network series IGPX.[6] From 2005 to 2006, she played tough cop Ana Lucia Cortez[22] on the television series Lost during the show's second season (the character's first appearance was a flashback during the first season's finale, "Exodus: Part 1"), and returned for a cameo in the second episode of the show's fifth season, "The Lie", in 2009. She returned again in the penultimate episode of the series, "What They Died For", in 2010. In 2006, Rodriguez was featured in her own episode of G4's show Icons.[23]
In 2008, Rodriguez appeared in Battle in Seattle.[24] In 2009, she appeared in Fast & Furious, the fourth installment of the The Fast and the Furious film series.[25][26] Later that year, Rodriguez starred in James Cameron's high-budget sci-fi adventure film Avatar, which became the highest-grossing film in history and Rodriguez's most successful film to date. She has expressed interest in returning for the film's two sequels.[27][28] In 2009, Rodriguez also starred in Trópico de Sangre, an independent film based on the Dominican Republic's historic Mirabal sisters.[29][30]



 From left to right, Rodriguez, Jonathan Liebesman and Aaron Eckhart at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International
In 2010, Rodriguez appeared in Robert Rodriguez's Machete. The film received mostly positive reviews and earned $44 million at the box office.[31] In 2011, she appeared with Aaron Eckhart in the science fiction film Battle: Los Angeles which grossed over $200 million in the worldwide box office. In 2012, she returned to play the good clone and bad clone of Rain Ocampo in Resident Evil: Retribution. In 2013, she reprised her role as Letty Ortiz in Fast & Furious 6. In the same year, Rodriguez appeared in Robert Rodriguez's film Machete Kills.
Typecast[edit]
After her film debut, Girlfight, Rodriguez has consistently portrayed tough and tomboyish characters who operate in traditional male fields such as the police force or armed forces. Rodriguez says that she does not mind the typecasting, and in fact, is somewhat responsible for it:[32]
"Oh man, I was typecast the minute I did a film called Girlfight years ago. You allow yourself to be typecast. If I decided I didn't want to be typecast tomorrow, I'd just do an indie film where I play some poor girl who goes through some excruciating experience and win myself an award for crying or being raped. But at the end of the day, I'm not in it for the acting. I only wanna be someone I respect or someone that I consider interesting or fun. I'm here to entertain people and make a statement about female empowerment and strength, and that's what I've done for the last 10 years. I pigeonholed myself and I put myself in that box by saying no to everything else that came on my plate. Saying no to this, no to that, and eventually I just got left with the strong chick that's always being killed, and there's nothing wrong with that."
Screenwriting[edit]
During the promotional tour of Fast & Furious 6 Rodriguez has stated that she originally joined the Hollywood business to become a screenwriter. She has also stated that she has two screenplays under development and plans to take a break from acting to pursue her writing. One is a family film based on a concept which she describes as "a 2012 story about purity and animals and children",[33] and the other is a revision of an American remake of the 1997 German film Bandits which she describes as a film "about four girls who break out of jail and get chased across the country by the feds and by this MTV-like representative".[34]
Disc jockey[edit]
Rodriguez has been performing as a disc jockey since 2009 – both internationally in nightclubs and at film première after-parties.[35] Rodriguez has stated that her preferred genre to mix is house music and has gone on the record to say, that "for the most part I like playing for mature crowds so that I can go all the way back to the 1930s then through the 1960s, 1970 and 1980s – then kick it into house, hip-hop and R&B. I like to mix it up, it's pretty eclectic."
Notable rankings[edit]
Several times over the course of her career, she has been ranked in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women In The World", Maxim???'??s "100 Sexiest Women", and People en Español???'??s "50 Más Bellos", and was ranked No. 74 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2009".[citation needed]
Personal life[edit]
Relationships[edit]



 Rodriguez in 2009
In early 2000, Rodriguez broke off an engagement to a Muslim boyfriend, citing opposition to religious requests he made of her.[36] She has since reportedly dated her Fast and the Furious co-star Vin Diesel[37] and S.W.A.T. co-star Olivier Martinez.[38][39]
In July 2006, Rodriguez told Cosmopolitan magazine that she is not a lesbian, but had "experimented with both sexes".[40] In November 2006, her openly bisexual Bloodrayne co-star Kristanna Loken made comments to The Advocate that were widely interpreted by the media as an admission that the two were in a relationship, though the relationship was never officially confirmed by either actress.[41] In June 2007, the lesbian magazine Curve ran a cover story that claimed Rodriguez to be bisexual.[42] Rodriguez criticized the magazine for this, asserting that the magazine had "put words in her mouth".[43] She again stated that she was not a lesbian in a November 2008 interview in the Dominican Republic women's magazine Cayena.[44]
In October 2013, Entertainment Weekly quoted her saying: "I've gone both ways. I do as I please. I am too curious to sit here and not try when I can. Men are intriguing. So are chicks."[7] She subsequently explained her coming out to Latina magazine: "I'm getting older. Eventually it's going to wrinkle up and I'm not going to be able to use it. I wanted to be honest about who I am and see what happens."[45] In May 2014, she said in an interview that she hoped her actions would help others in a similar situation: "Maybe by me opening my big fat mouth like I usually do and stepping up and owning who I am, maybe it might inspire somebody else to do the same."[46] She described herself as bisexual in another interview later that month: "Bi, yeah, I fall under the B category of LGBT". Regarding the lack of unconventional female roles available in films, she said: "What's wrong with being bi? I mean, we're getting flak everywhere we go."[47]
Legal issues[edit]
In March 2002, Rodriguez was arrested for assault after getting into a fight with her roommate.[48] The charges were later dropped after the roommate declined to press the allegations in court.[49] In November 2003, Rodriguez went to court to face eight misdemeanor charges based on two driving incidents including a hit and run and DUI.[50] In June 2004, Rodriguez pleaded no contest in Los Angeles to three of the charges: hit and run, drunken driving, and driving with a suspended license.[51] She went to jail for 48 hours, performed community service at the morgues of two New York hospitals, completed a three-month alcohol program, and was placed on probation for three years.[52]
In 2005, while filming Lost in Hawaii, Rodriguez was pulled over by Honolulu police multiple times; she was cited for driving at 83 mph (134 km/h) in a 55 mph (89 km/h) zone on Oahu on November 1, and was fined $357. She paid a $300 fine for driving 90 mph (140 km/h) in a 35 mph (56 km/h) zone on October 20, and was fined $197 for going 80 mph (130 km/h) in a 50 mph (80 km/h) zone on August 24.[53]
On December 1, 2005, Rodriguez was pulled over and arrested for driving under the influence.[54] Rodriguez pleaded not guilty when arraigned,[55] but on the day of her trial in April 2006, she pleaded guilty to one charge of driving under the influence. She chose to pay a $500 fine and spend five days in jail instead of doing 240 hours of community service.[51] She cited her high doses of allergy-relieving steroids as part of the reason for her erratic behavior.[56] Because the Kailua incident was a violation of her Los Angeles probation, she was sentenced to 60 days in jail, a 30-day alcohol rehabilitation program and another 30 days of community service, including work for Mothers Against Drunk Driving, by a Los Angeles judge on May 1, 2006.[57] Because of overcrowding, she was released from jail on the same day she entered. She wrote about the experience on her blog.[58]
In September 2007, Rodriguez allegedly violated her probation by not completing her community service and not following an alcohol education program. It was reported that she originally submitted a document stating she performed community service on September 5, 2006, but it was later confirmed she was actually in New York City that day. Her lawyer claimed it was a clerical error.[59] On October 10, 2007, following a hearing, she was sentenced to 180 days jail time after agreeing to admit to violating her probation. She was expected to spend the full 180-day term in jail, as she had been deemed ineligible for work furloughs and house arrest.[60] However, after turning herself in to begin the jail term at the Century Regional Detention Facility located in Lynwood, California, on December 23, 2007,[61] she was released eighteen days later on January 9, 2008, due to overcrowding.[62]
Filmography[edit]
Film[edit]

Year
Title
Role
Notes

2000 Girlfight Diana Guzman Deauville Film Festival Prize for Best Female Performance
Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance
National Board of Review Award for Best Breakthrough Performance by an Actress
Gotham Award for Breakthrough Performance
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Female Newcomer
 Nominated – Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Newcomer
 Nominated – Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress
 Nominated – Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Cinematic Debut/Breakthrough
 Nominated – Black Reel Award: Best Actress
 Nominated – ALMA Award for Outstanding Latino Cast in a Feature Film
2001 The Fast and the Furious Leticia "Letty" Ortiz Nominated – ALMA Award for Best Actress in Film
2001 3 A.M. Salgado Nominated – ALMA Award for Outstanding Actor/Actress in a Made for Television Movie or Miniseries
2002 Resident Evil Rain Ocampo 
2002 Blue Crush Eden Nominated – MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Team (with Kate Bosworth and Sanoe Lake)
2003 S.W.A.T. Officer Chris Sanchez Imagen Foundation Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Film
2004 Control Teresa 
2005 BloodRayne Katarin Nominated – Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress
2006 The Breed Nicki 
2007 Battle in Seattle Lou 
2008 Gardens of the Night Lucy 
2009 Fast & Furious Leticia "Letty" Ortiz Nominated – ALMA Award for Actress in a Film
2009 Trópico de Sangre Minerva Mirabal 
2009 Avatar Captain Trudy Chacon 
2010 Machete Luz/Shé 
2010 Trópico de Sangre Minerva Mirabal 
2011 Battle: Los Angeles Technical Sergeant Elana Santos Nominated – ALMA Award for Favorite Movie Actress-Drama/Adventure
2011 Fast Five Leticia "Letty" Ortiz Cameo/Photograph only
2012 Resident Evil: Retribution Rain Ocampo[63] 
2013 InAPPropriate Comedy Harriet 
2013 Fast & Furious 6 Leticia "Letty" Ortiz Premios Tu Mundo – Fandango Cine's Latino Performance of the Year
 Nominated – Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actress: Action
2013 Machete Kills Luz/Shé 
2013 Turbo Paz Voice
2015 Furious 7 Leticia "Letty" Ortiz
2016 Resident Evil: The Final Chapter Rain Ocampo In-development

Television[edit]

Year
Title
Role
Notes

2005 Punk'd Herself 1 episode
2005 Immortal Grand Prix Liz Ricarro 26 episodes
2005–2010 Lost Ana Lucia Cortez 24 episodes
ALMA Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Television Series
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
 Nominated – Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television
2011 CollegeHumor Original Jessica Episode: "Sorority Pillow Fight"
2012 Germany's Next Top Model Herself Episode: "A dream comes true: Hollywood is waiting"

Video games[edit]

Year
Title
Role
Notes

2003 True Crime: Streets of LA Rosie Velasco 
2003 Driv3r Calita 
2004 Halo 2 Marine 
2009 James Cameron's Avatar: The Game Captain Trudy Chacon 
2012 Call of Duty: Black Ops II Strike Force Soldier 
2015 Battlefield Hardline Female S.W.A.T. Multiplayer Only

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The West Wing, season 1/season 2 (2000): Hill; Janney; Kelly; Lowe; Moloney; Schiff; Sheen; Spencer; Whitford
 The West Wing, season 2/season 3 (2001): Hill; Janney; Lowe; Moloney; Schiff; Sheen; Spencer; Whitford
 Six Feet Under, season 2 (2002): Ambrose; Conroy; Griffiths; Hall; Krause; Rodríguez; St. Patrick
 Six Feet Under, season 3 (2003): Ambrose; Conroy; Foster; Griffiths; Hall; Krause; Macdissi; Machado; Rodríguez; St. Patrick; Taylor; Wilson
 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, season 4/season 5 (2004): Dourdan; Eads; Fox; Guilfoyle; Hall; Helgenberger; Petersen; Szmanda
 Lost, season 1/season 2 (2005): Akinnuoye-Agbaje; Andrews; de Ravin; Fox; Garcia; Grace; Holloway; Kelley; D. D. Kim; Y. Kim; Lilly; Monaghan; O'Quinn; Perrineau; Rodriguez; Somerhalder; Watros
 Grey's Anatomy, season 2/season 3 (2006): Chambers; Dane; Dempsey; Heigl; Knight; Oh; Pickens; Pompeo; Ramirez; Walsh; Washington; Wilson
 The Sopranos, season 6 (2007): Antonacci; Bracco; Falco; Gandolfini; Grimaldi; Iler; Imperioli; Nascarella; Schirripa; Servitto; Sigler; Sirico; Turturro; Van Zandt; Vincent
 Mad Men, season 2 (2008): Batt; Brie; Gladis; Hamm; Hart; Hendricks; Jones; Kartheiser; Moses; Moss; Shipka; Slattery; Sommer; Staton
 Mad Men, season 3 (2009): Alemanni; Batt; Gilmore; Gladis; Hamm; Harris; Hendricks; Jones; Kartheiser; Morse; Moss; Shipka; Slattery; Sommer; Stanley; Staton
 

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